Ducto, ductas, ductâre, Frequentatiuum. To conducte, leade, or guide: to fode off and delay with wordes: to esteeme: to obtaine to haue a thing. vt, Ductare exercitum. Sallu. To leade an army.Ductare aliquem frustr.Plaut.To fode out and beguile with faire words.Ductare aliquem dolis. Plau. To deceiue or beguile: deceitfully to induce.Ductare aliquem maledictis. Plau. By shrewde words to obtaine to haue one. vt, Maledictis eam ductare postulas. Plaut.Restim inter puellas ductare. Tere. To leade daunces among wenches. Ductare pro nihilo.Plaut.To esteeme as nothing.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ducto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a. [id.], to lead or draw, conduct (very freq. in Plaut.; elsewh. perh. only in Ter., Sall., and once in Tac.; not in Cic., Caes., or the Aug. authors). I.Lit.A. In gen.: aliquem, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 158: restim ductans, Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 34 Ruhnk.: exercitum per saltuosa loca, Sall. J. 38, 1; so, exercitum, id. C. 11, 5; 17, 7; id. J. 70, 2; Tac. H. 2, 100; cf.: equites in exercitu, Sall. C. 19, 3; Amm. 14, 10, 11 (acc. to Quint. 8, 3, 44, this phraseology was regarded by many as indelicate, prob. on account of the foll. signif. of the word ducto).—B. In partic.: aliquam, to take home, take to one's self a concubine, Plaut. As. 1, 3, 12 sq.; id. Men. 4, 3, 20; id. Poen. 4, 2, 46; Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 15.—II.Trop.A.To deceive, delude, cheat: nil moror ductarier, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 159: qui me ductavit dolis, id. Capt. 3, 4, 109.—B.To charm, allure: set me Apollo ipsus delectat ductat Delficus, Enn. ap. Non. 97, 32 (Trag. v. 390 Vahl.): meretrices eum labiis ductant, id. Mil. 2, 1, 15.—(But in Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 85, the correct reading is duco, not ducto, v. Ritschl ad h. l.).